AI and the algorithmic ordering of society

Pascal D. Koenig ()

Chapter 4 in Understanding the Politics of Artificial Intelligence, 2025, pp 39-55 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Certain uses of AI systems can serve to structure and order social relations and guide people's behaviours on a large scale. This chapter examines what forms of steering or governance AI systems enable and how AI applications can become similar to institutions that regulate people's behaviours. It furthermore looks at how the kind of societal steering made possible through AI compares to existing modes of governance, especially traditional top-down governing and market-based coordination – and whether it enables a novel kind of steering. Against this backdrop, the chapter also discusses to what extent a governance enabled by AI systems is compatible with democratic politics. Finally, the chapter examines how the use of AI in people's private lives can gain political relevance to the extent that an increasing reliance on AI may gradually undermine personal autonomy.

Keywords: Governance; Technocracy; Evidence-based decisions; Democracy; Paternalism; Autonomy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035348015
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